Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Studying Childcare

Way back in 1994, when I was 14 years old and picking my GCSE subjects, I thought about studying childcare. After all, I liked children, I thought I might like to have children one day, so it might be interesting to learn how to look after them.

I was called into a meeting with my parents
and told I was not allowed to take this subject. Childcare, it was
explained, was a subject for pupils with no other choices, who did’nt stand a
chance of getting proper GCSE’s in other subjects.

Not for people like me who could take
the academic subjects and might go to university one day if I worked hard.

So I did’nt get to do Childcare after all. I did
Electronics instead and spent 2 years learning to solder light sensors onto
little circuit boards.

And it is for this reason, that I have spent the first
3 weeks of my sons life, blissfully unaware was supposed to be winding
him, and indeed of how such a thing might be done.